2 - COMBINED PUBLIC COMMENTS_2525 N MAIN STREET

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January 7, 2019 Honorable Planning Commission City of Santa Ana PO Box 1988 Santa Ana, CA 92702 RE: 2525 N. Main Street Dear Chairman and Commissioners: With the upcoming hearing and associated decision which will impact the future of the City of Santa Ana, its citizens and the residents of Park Santiago, I hope that you have had the opportunity to review all the project materials and public comments and have taken to heart the ongoing testimony at the public hearings. As a person who has spent my career in land development (primarily residential), I have been in the developer’s shoes and now I am on the other side. I believe I can professionally see both sides unbiasedly and look at the overall possible merits and potential problems of the proposed project. I’ve always believed development is a balance and I understand that this proposed project is a fine balance between development and fees. I am not opposed to development at this location – development which follows good planning guidelines using honesty in analyzing the project and in the project documentation. In my professional opinion, this is not the case with the proposed project. There are obvious errors and gross negligence in the methodology used in analyzing the project and therefore, the documents produced are flawed and surely challengeable under CEQA. At the proposed density, the project does not fit at this location. In order to protect the City of Santa Ana as good stewards, I urge the Planning Commission to do the following: • Deny the project as currently proposed by the Applicant with 84/DUA (496 units) • Deny the Staff Report of 81/DUA (476 units) • Request the Applicant and Staff to redesign the project to less than 38/DUA (30/DUA would be a more "reasonable" number of DUAs which the location can support), along with a combination of 2 and 3 stories, 3 stories orientated